Charging your electric car with solar power

THE PERFECT COMBINATION: CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR WITH SOLAR POWER

Anyone switching to an electric car today can make an important contribution to our climate, but it is important to charge an electric car with green electricity. The best way to do this is with solar power from your own photovoltaic system. The electricity from your own roof is clean and truly cost-effective.

Advantages of sustainable e-mobility

☀ Reduce costs
Charge your electric car using cost-effective solar power from your own roof.

☀ Increase self-consumption
Use the majority of your own solar power and feed less into the grid.

☀ Reduce CO₂emissions
Power your car using green electricity without emissions, reduce your ecological footprint and ensure better air quality.

CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR WITH COST-EFFECTIVE SOLAR POWER

Solar power is the cheapest form of electricity today. Therefore, it also makes financial sense to charge your electric car with solar power - preferably from your own photovoltaic system. This means that your electric car will not only run on green electricity, but also on extremely cost-effective electricity.

Due to the cost advantage you have when charging, the electric car pays for itself even faster. Incidentally, in the long term, electric cars will achieve further price advantages over cars with combustion engines because they require less maintenance.

USE AS MUCH OF YOUR OWN SOLAR POWER AS POSSIBLE

A photovoltaic system pays off for everyone. However, the investment will pay for itself more quickly if you use as much of your own electricity as possible. You can achieve a particularly high level of self-consumption if you charge your electric car with PV electricity.

With the help of Fronius charging solutions, you can ensure that your electric car automatically charges when there is surplus PV power available in the household. This means that you charge your car exclusively with electricity that would otherwise flow unused into the public grid.

The charging box for the home & on the road: Fronius Wattpilot

The Fronius Wattpilot is the ideal charging box for anyone who wants to charge their electric car flexibly and cheaply at home and on the road.

Cost-effective charging with flexible electricity tariffs
Charge with surplus energy from solar systems
Intelligent charging modes for affordable and plannable charging
Simple operation and app for even more overview and flexibility

More about the Fronius Wattpilot

Charging an electric car with solar power – here’s how it works Here’s how you can harness the energy from your own roof for use throughout the home.

Photovoltaic modules With home systems, usually mounted on the roof, the solar cells turn the incident sunlight into electrical energy.

Inverter The heart and brain of every photovoltaic system. The inverter converts the generated direct current into alternating current, which can then be used in the home. In addition to this, the inverter optimises the yield, controls the energy flows and ensures the photovoltaic system is working correctly.

Fronius Smart Meter Our intelligent electricity meter optimises energy management, and therefore self-consumption.

Charging box The recharging point for electric cars. Simply plug in and charge vehicles with electricity from the grid, or from your own photovoltaic system.

Photovoltaic modules

With home systems, usually mounted on the roof, the solar cells turn the incident sunlight into electrical energy.

Inverter

The heart and brain of every photovoltaic system. The inverter converts the generated direct current into alternating current, which can then be used in the home. In addition to this, the inverter optimises the yield, controls the energy flows and ensures the photovoltaic system is working correctly.

Fronius Smart Meter

Our intelligent electricity meter optimises energy management, and therefore self-consumption.

Charging box

The recharging point for electric cars. Simply plug in and charge vehicles with electricity from the grid, or from your own photovoltaic system.

Photovoltaics Solar modules and an inverter form the basis of a sustainable energy solution. Here’s how you can produce electricity for your home on your own roof.

Energy storage devices for 24 hours of sun If you upgrade your photovoltaic system with a solar storage system, you can even use your own electricity when the sun is not shining.

E-mobility with solar power If you charge your electric car with solar power from your own roof, not only are you driving with green electricity, but it is cheaper too – you do not have to pay for electricity from the grid.

Hot water You can also use your self-generated electricity to heat water – for showers or heating, for example. Your photovoltaic system will then pay for itself even more quickly.

Photovoltaics

Solar modules and an inverter form the basis of a sustainable energy solution. Here’s how you can produce electricity for your home on your own roof.

Energy storage devices for 24 hours of sun

If you upgrade your photovoltaic system with a solar storage system, you can even use your own electricity when the sun is not shining.

E-mobility with solar power

If you charge your electric car with solar power from your own roof, not only are you driving with green electricity, but it is cheaper too – you do not have to pay for electricity from the grid.

Hot water

You can also use your self-generated electricity to heat water – for showers or heating, for example. Your photovoltaic system will then pay for itself even more quickly.

KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM AT ALL TIMES

With the free Fronius Solar.web monitoring tool, you can keep an eye on your energy yield and consumption at all times and get the most out of your photovoltaic system.

Ensure functionality
Shorten the payback period
Expose energy guzzlers
Analyse and optimise energy consumption
Keep the system up-to-date
Save more money with individual extensions
Extend warranty free of charge

More about system monitoring

E-mobility for businesses

Are you interested in e-mobility solutions for your company?
Click here for our solar & charging solutions for commercial businesses.

E-mobility for businesses

"Why we chose the Fronius Wattpilot Go is quite simple. It is mobile, which is very important to us. You can take it with you anywhere. So I can charge my electric car where and when I want."

Gernot Gugerbauer,
Electric car driver and Fronius Wattpilot user

To the experience report

HIGH QUALITY, WORTHWHILE INVESTMENT

Smart technology
Through the use of intelligent inverters and the smart charging box Fronius Wattpilot, Fronius is able to offer flexible charging concepts for electric cars.
75 years of experience
More than seven decades ago, Günter Fronius founded the family-owned enterprise. Now the team is made up of 5,000+ people, and together they are driving forward the energy revolution.
Made in Austria
Fronius quality has always been produced in Austria. Sustainable production is particularly important to us.
Strong partners
A Fronius partner near you – trained & certified by us – is available to help you with advice and support for your personal energy revolution.

We at Fronius have been developing solutions for solar energy for decades and have also been working for a long time on combining photovoltaics and e-mobility. Our PV systems can be expanded on a modular basis and are therefore fit for the future. An e-mobility solution with high-quality Fronius components offers maximum flexibility.

Our Fronius System Partners are available to help you implement your individual photovoltaic solution. In our large network of partner installers, you will find a local contact who will guide you from the planning stage through to installation and optimisation.

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Charging your electric car with solar power

THE PERFECT COMBINATION: CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR WITH SOLAR POWER

Advantages of sustainable e-mobility

CHARGE YOUR ELECTRIC CAR WITH COST-EFFECTIVE SOLAR POWER

USE AS MUCH OF YOUR OWN SOLAR POWER AS POSSIBLE

The charging box for the home & on the road: Fronius Wattpilot

KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM AT ALL TIMES

E-mobility for businesses

HIGH QUALITY, WORTHWHILE INVESTMENT